The annual Horncastle Astronomy Weekend takes
place each September, starting every 2nd Friday.
A very good event.
2018 dates: 14-16 September. 46th HAW!

Organised by Paul and Lorraine Money.
It will be based at the Village Hall, Minting,
near Horncastle, Lincolnshire LN9 5RX.
For further information, See:
The Horncastle Astronomy Weekend (HAW)

Paul Money's StarnightsWatch his "Events" page for updates on all future Starnights.
You can also order his invaluable publication, "Night Scenes."
For further information, contact Paul Money
via his website Astrospace.

Planetarium, Magazines and Newsletters

Stellarium.

Stellarium. Replicate local skies with a free planetarium app for your computer or smartphone.

For on-line information on what to look out for in the night sky each month.

International Meteor Organisation for more scientific presentation of Meteor information. Very good.
Details of major showers are posted on this site, which is packed with well presented facts, figures and diagrams!

Prefer dark skies? Worried about the impact of light pollution on wildlife?If you are fed up with tacky, sentimental, energy-wasting and potentially
harmful lighting of buildings, radio masts and monuments and at holiday resorts, ports &c. check out:

Humber Bridge lighting trials Andrew Credland's photograph of the 1999 [now-scrapped]project says it all! But the lighting idea still has support in some quarters!
Beware. "Hull City of Culture 2017" might get the debate going again.

Birr Castle, home of the Parsons family, the Earls of Rosse, who made a significant contribution to astronomy.

"SETI&quot

The Search for Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) is on! There's little enough intelligence here on Earth, so we could do with it!

Jodrell Bank and the SETI project. The Lovell 76m radiotelescope at Jodrell Bank and the 305m Arecibo Telescope in Puerto Rico have begun to conduct the most sensitive and comprehensive search ever undertaken for radio communication signals from Extra-Terrestrial Civilisations beyond our Solar System.

SETI@home. A scientific experiment that harnesses the power of hundreds of thousands of Internet-connected computers in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI).
You can participate by running a free program that downloads and analyses radio telescope data.
Sign up on the BOINC website.
Free software can be downloaded there and you can "attach" to any of the BOINC projects
using this.